2020 Supplement to “The Law of Democracy” Now Available
West Academic Published has announced that the 2020 Supplement to The Law of Democracy: Legal Regulation of the Political Process is now available at this link.
The Supplement contains a free-standing 15-page section on issues concerning the fall election, including… Continue reading
“Why the Botched N.Y.C. Primary Has Become the November Nightmare”
NYT reports, with the subhed: “Nearly six weeks later, two congressional races remain undecided, and officials are trading blame over the mishandling of tens of thousands of mail-in ballots.”
2004 video of Trump driving all over NYC trying to vote but not on the rolls, then casting a provisional ballot
CNN:
Video of then-businessman Donald Trump struggling to vote in-person before declaring he would fill out an absentee ballot in 2004 has resurfaced this week amid a new round of unfounded attacks on mail-in voting from the President.
The… Continue reading
“Remember election night? Pandemic, tight races could make it election week. Or longer”
Bryan Lowry for the KC Star:
Kansans and Missourians may need to be patient on election night Tuesday. That’s because election night won’t necessarily bring election results.The unprecedented volume of mail balloting and a shortage of poll workers caused by… Continue reading
“As Trump leans into attacks on mail voting, GOP officials confront signs of Republican turnout crisis”
WaPo:
President Trump’s unfounded attacks on mail balloting are discouraging his own supporters from embracing the practice, according to polls and Republican leaders across the country, prompting growing alarm that one of the central strategies of his campaign is threatening… Continue reading
“Trump threatens lawsuit to block mail-in voting in Nevada”
Politico:
President Donald Trump threatened legal action Monday after Nevada’s legislature passed a bill to mail ballots to all active voters, suggesting that the measure would make it impossible for Republicans to win there in November’s general election.“In an illegal… Continue reading
“How the Trump campaign came to court QAnon, the online conspiracy movement identified by the FBI as a violent threat”
WaPo:
Outside the Las Vegas Convention Center, Kayleigh McEnany raised a microphone to a mega-fan and asked what it felt like to be acknowledged by President Trump at his February rally in Sin City.At the time a spokeswoman for… Continue reading
“Mail-In Voting Is ‘Not Rampant Voter Fraud,’ Says Washington’s Top Election Official”
NPR:
This past week, President Trump renewed his unsubstantiated claim that mail-in voting begets inaccurate or fraudulent results when he raised the prospect of delaying November’s election.“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the… Continue reading
“Fact check: Stephen Miller carries water for Trump in promoting mail-in voting conspiracies”
“Here’s how experts think the press should cover the run-up to the November election”
CNN:
The US Presidential Election is bound to look different this year.Because of the coronavirus pandemic, both Democratic and GOP party conventions have been dramatically scaled back, and it’s unlikely that there will be rooms packed with people… Continue reading
“Census Door Knocking Cut A Month Short Amid Pressure To Finish Count”
Hansi Lo Wang for NPR:
The Census Bureau is cutting short critical door-knocking efforts for the 2020 census amid growing concerns among Democrats in Congress that the White House is pressuring the bureau to wrap up counting soon for political… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Signals Federal Judiciary Won’t Mediate Fights Over Voting and Virus; High court’s conservative majority sees scant constitutional authority to weigh in on state elections”
Jess Bravin for the WSJ:
If the coronavirus is pitting nervous voters against state election officials, don’t expect the federal courts to solve their problem.That is the message from a string of Supreme Court orders since April, which saw the… Continue reading
“How the Media Could Get the Election Story Wrong We may not know the results for days, and maybe weeks. So it’s time to rethink “election night.””
Ben Smith NYT media column:
Picture this Thanksgiving: turkey, football (maybe), tenser-than-usual interactions with relatives. And perhaps a new tradition: finding out who actually won the presidential election.The coronavirus crisis means that states like Pennsylvania may be counting mail-in… Continue reading